The Irish standard., 1887-05-28
CATHOLIC NEWS.

CATHOLIC NEWS.
RELIGIOUS Notes.
Another Catholic Church is to be
built in Seattle, w. T.
There are 181 Catholic newspapers
published in Germany.
On June 9 Archbishop Elder will ded-
icate the new church at Wilmington,
Ohio.
The Catholics of Hope. Dickinson
county, Kansas, will build $1,000
church this summer.
The new convent at O'Connor. Neb. i,
was damaged to the extent of $500 by a
wind storm last week.
The Polish Catholics of Baltimore
have put in bid for Methodist
church which is for sale.
Three priests and dozen brothers 20
out from Bavaria next month as mis-
sionaries to Western Africa.
It is expected that the new St. S :
nous church, Washington, Ind, will
be ready for occupancy in the Fall.
The cornerstone of the new St..
James church, Jessup, Pa. was laid on
Sunday, May 8, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop
O'Hara.
The President of Spanish Honduras
has invited the Sisters of Mercy of New
Orleans, La, to extend their Order into
his territory.
The Sisters of Charity, Of Mount Sc
ton, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co.,
Pa, are building large and beautiful
convent and school.
The Catholics of Philadelphia have
contributed $l,500,O00 for charitable
purposes during the espiscopate Of the
Most Rev. P. j. Ryan.
The new church at Dunville, Ont,
of which the Rev. Father Crinion has
pastoral charge, will be dedicated on
the Feast of the Ascension, May 10.
The Benedictine Sisters of St. Jo-
seph, MIMI, are going to build brick
school house for the use of the ninety
four Indian girls under their charge.
St. Peters Church, Jersey City, n.
j., is to be consecrated next July. 1t
is being thoroughly renovated at cost
of about $40, 600 for that great occasion.
The Catholics of Pipe Creek, Kansas,
numbering twenty-five families, hav-
ing lately erected and paid for a neat
little church, ale now planning a school
house.
The contracts for completing St. Pat
rick's parocial school, Troy, N. Y,
have been awarded and work on the
institution will be pressed to an early
issue.
The Rev. J. G. Vogt, rector of St.
Phillips Church, Dungannon, Ohio, is
about to build a church at New Lisbon,
Columbiana county, Ohio, at an estim-
ated cost of $500.
Five new Catholic churches Will he
erected in Crawford county, Iowa, the
coming summer, in the following
towns: Dow City, Charter Oak, West
Side, Aspinwall and Manila.
The Rev. Gilbert p. Jennings will
build new brick church at Conneaut,
Ohio, to replace the frame structure
now inadequate for the rapid growing
congregation. Estimated cost $4,000.
The cornerstone of the new Church
of st. Vincent de Paul, for the French
and Italian Catholics of Stirling, N. j.,
was laid on Sunday, May 8, by the Rev.
J. F. Salum, of South Orange, N. j
The rector is the Rev. Pierre Julien.
On Sunday, May %, them st. Law
rence's Church, Price Hill, of which
the Rev. DR.. Schoenhoeft is rector. was
dedicated. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Rich
ter, of Grand Rapids. Mich, who once
had pastoral charge of st. Lawrence's
otficiated.
At the recent annual meeting of the
Union Catholic Library Association Of
Chicago, officers were elected as follows:
President, E. H. Condor; vice presi-
dent, D. Il. McAuley; treasurer, Nor
ris Thomas; corresponding secretary,
DR.. E.. O'Keefe.
The Rev. P. j. Gallagher, Of st. Paul,
Mimi, has purchased the large build
ing formerly known as the Humboldt
school, and will have it thoroughly
renovated and remodeled for Catholic
school purposes. When completed it
will be the largest Catholic school house
in the city.
The following figures give some idea
of the Catholic mission work: At pres
ent India has Is bishops and arch
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